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Laurel Brett

The Last Days of Chez Nous: On Losing the Places Where We Belong

The title of an Australian film from 1991, Last Days of Chez Nous, has always haunted me, long after any memories of the film itself faded…

Oct 30, 2020

The Last Days of Chez Nous: On Losing the Places Where We Belong

Oct 30, 2020

The Democratic Dream of the White Daddy and the Dream Suitor

It just happened. I got called a bigot by two angry Facebook posters on a friend’s thread. My comment? That I don’t support Joe Biden for…

Mar 23, 2019

Mar 23, 2019

John McCain’s Funeral Was Not a Resistance Party

Okay. I’m going to write this. I really don’t want to. It’s Labor Day. I start my college teaching again tomorrow, and I just want my last…

Sep 4, 2018

Sep 4, 2018

Mean Boys

Tina Fey nailed the cult of girl cruelty in her iconic film, Mean Girls. But what about mean boys? These were the guys who terrorized us on…

Jun 18, 2018

Mean Boys

Jun 18, 2018

Trump Won Because We Wanted Him To

I should clarify what I mean by we. I mean the United States as a society. I know we have micro-societies, and it’s hard to speak of a…

Jun 18, 2018

Jun 18, 2018

It’s a Travesty: Travesties and the Tony

When I was first introduced to Tom Stoppard’s brand of puckish wisdom with Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead my ears pricked up like a…

May 19, 2018

May 19, 2018

Bitter: #metoo Goes to Academia

Among the five basic tastes, sweet, sour, savory, salty, and bitter, we are most sensitive to bitterness, probably because bitter foods are…

May 19, 2018

May 19, 2018

Smashing Knowledge: Kristallnacht in America

I have been teaching the great classical epics in my community college mythology class, as I have for roughly thirty semesters. For years I…

Dec 6, 2017

Dec 6, 2017

Women Warriors

(With thanks to Maxine Hong Kingston)

Nov 18, 2017

Nov 18, 2017

Dear George Clooney, Shut Up

Dear George Clooney, you may look cute in a tuxedo, but when you open your mouth, you lose me. And those who compare you to Cary Grant…

Sep 26, 2017

Dear George Clooney, Shut Up

Sep 26, 2017

Laurel Brett

Laurel Brett

Laurel Brett, PhD. teaches English, Women’s Studies, and Mythology. She is the author The Schrödinger Girl, and Disquiet on the Western Front.

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